Hundreds of citizens from Coventry, England attended a memorial service for Franklin Delano Roosevelt on April 13, 1945. The service was held in the ruins of the Coventry Cathedral, which was destroyed by a German bombing raid in 1940. US soldiers honored their president with an honor guard and gun salute.

In the above photo the sixth soldier from the right is Chester P. “Buck” Sloan, 2^nd Infantry Division, 38^th Infantry Regiment, 1^st Battalion, Company B.